Skeptophilia

After ten years of writing this blog six times a week, you'd think I'd be inured.  You'd think I'd long ago have stopped run...

A few weeks ago I was in my office working, and while writing on my computer I was listening to the London Symphony Orchestra (under the dir...

For ten years, I was part of a Celtic dance band called Crooked Sixpence.  The name, if you're curious, comes from an English children...

In Ursula LeGuin's amazing and disturbing novel The Lathe of Heaven , a very ordinary guy finds that he has a completely unordinary abil...

The controversy and misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines have brought the anti-vaxx movement back into the spotlight, and once a...

I introduced yesterday's post, about the discovery that a large percentage of the meteorites seem to have come from a single collision e...

Today's post is a scientific puzzle that -- so far -- doesn't have an answer. I'm sure you've all had the lovely experience ...